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Note: Truecrypt 4.3a needs device mapper to work, truecrypt PDF guide is a seperate package. This version does not have a GUI. This version is ONLY for kernel 2.6.21.7.

First, thank you very much for these files! I use TrueCrypt all the time.

I made a new TrueCrypt volume to find out it is created as a fat volume that only takes 8 characters! That won't work for me. I ended up booting up Windows and reformatting the encrypted drive with ntfs. I would prefer to format it with a linux file system.

I started to use fdisk, but backed out. It said that I "must set cylinders." At this point I became uncertain if fdisk is the correct tool.

In the terminal window can I type, "fdisk /path/encrypted_volume" and then proceed through the steps involved with formatting? Is there a graphical tool that I could format this with?

I made a new TrueCrypt volume to find out it is created as a fat volume that only takes 8 characters! That won't work for me. I ended up booting up Windows and reformatting the encrypted drive with ntfs. I would prefer to format it with a linux file system.

I had the same problem, but solved it by entering utf8 in the mount options area of the TrueCrypt preferences. That fixed things for me.

I started to use fdisk, but backed out. It said that I "must set cylinders." At this point I became uncertain if fdisk is the correct tool.

In the terminal window can I type, "fdisk /path/encrypted_volume" and then proceed through the steps involved with formatting? Is there a graphical tool that I could format this with?

Thanks!

Yup, you can do that, also mke2fs and mkfs.ext3.

Thanks for your reply.

In the terminal window I typed in
# mkfs.ext3 /path/truecryptfile
--It responded with, "...is not a block special device. Proceed anyway?"
--I said yes.
# mkfs.ext3: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot to re-read your partition table.

I tried this with fdisk and mke2fs, but got similar results. I didn't have any files open, so I'm not sure what it means when it says that the partition is being busy and in use.

After rebooting I find truecrypt in Menu/utlity, but it does not work. If I write "truecrypt" on the terminal,it gives:

# truecrypt
truecrypt: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by truecrypt)
truecrypt: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by truecrypt)
#
It seems some libraries are lacking. Anyone knows what to do?
Thanks

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